Cloudflare dropped the AI-bot lines from robots.txt on Sept 15. Most of those sites still refuse GPTBot at the edge
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On 15 September Cloudflare retired its Managed robots.txt feature, the one that prepended a block disallowing GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and five other AI crawlers. I measured what happened next. The robots.txt block disappeared from most of those sites within a day. But on most of the site…
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- 2026-09-23 12:27 · DEV Community — AI
Cloudflare dropped the AI-bot lines from robots.txt on Sept 15. Most of those sites still refuse GPTBot at the edge